Oedipus Scholarship Flashcards

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Rutherford fate

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‘in tragedy, all events seem imbued with a sinister inevitability.’
‘the ultimate tragedy of fate.’

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Rutherford humans and fate

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‘the characters’ failure indicated their moral limitations, the inability of human beings to understand the divine plan.’

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Hurlbut Oedipus’ fate

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‘Oedipus is morally innocent. He meets a fate that he seems not to deserve: a guiltless man, he suffers.’

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Koper Oedipus symbolic

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‘a symbol that represents quite consciously the dilemma presented by our mixed capacity for good and evil.’

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Allan Oedipus

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‘one of the more sympathetic heroes of tragedy’

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Allan divine motivation

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‘the opacity of divine motivation…focuses the audience’s attention on the chilling fact that terrible things can happen to basically sympathetic people.’

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Drew Griffith Oedipus’ guilt

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‘he killed Laius by free choice, thereby abdicating any claim to essential moral innocence.’

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Rush Rehm contemporary Athens

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‘the setting evoking both the ancient Thebes of myth and contemporary Athens.’

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Musrillo religious propaganda

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‘reading too much into our text to understand the play as a piece of religious propaganda’

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Peradotto divine justice

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‘the Greek tragic poets do not believe that divinites persecute mortals.’

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Coughanowr Oedipus

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‘a rather weak and temperamental average man.’

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Kane lesson of the play

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‘if there is any lesson in the play it is that intelligence acting in a perpetual vacuum can be worse than mere ignorance.’

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E.R. Donn

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‘what causes his ruin is his strength and courage, his loyalty to Thebes and his loyalty to the truth’

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